It is in the nature of cynical Britain to
sneer at such sentimental American notions, but it does remind us that there are many, many people who could do my job as a politician and probably do it a great deal better, but no one else can be a father to my children.
Not exact matches
That unsharable feeling which each one of us has of the pinch of his individual destiny as he privately feels it rolling out on fortune's wheel may be disparaged for its egotism, may be
sneered at as unscientific, but it is the one thing that fills up the measure of our concrete actuality, and any would - be existent that should lack
such a feeling, or its analogue, would be a piece of reality only half made up.
Moreover, if people are supporting Ukip in
such large numbers — even after the media's massed guns have been rattling
at it for weeks — it is probably time to drop all the
sneering and think about why.